The Use and Abuse of SovietologyTransaction Publishers, 01/01/1989 - 372 من الصفحات "This is a work by a fighter, a thinker, and an idealist. Leo Labedz is a fighter who minces no words in his contempt for the apologists of totalitarianism. He never rests in his efforts to enlarge the scope of human freedom, and many have felt the sharp edge of his political scalpel. He is a thinker with a penetrating mind and en-cyclopedic knowledge. He is an idealist who believes in sacrificing for the just cause to which he has dedicated his life." With these words of extraordinary praise, Zbigniew Brzezinski opens this volume of critical and polemical essays by Leopold Labedz. His knowledge of Soviet affairs, as seen through the eyes of the crusaders and critics of the Modern Russian State, is peerless. Chapters, which include major studies of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, George Orwell, Noam Chomsky, George Kennan, and Leszek Kolakowski among others, es-tablish Labedz as among the most incisive analysts of Soviet affairs as well as those who presume special expertise in this ar-cane field. Labedz's impassioned writing covers not only Sovietologists, but also the major fault lines with which totalitarian systems have been uniquely identified. His writings on the Holocaust, student revolt, European unity, and the meaning of detente, help provide a perspective with which to assess present moods and policies within the still ever-present Soviet bloc. The anthology was prepared and edited by Melvin J. Lasky, the editor of Encounter, in which many of these materials initially appeared. |
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... true , as the Soviet press had asserted , that the Academy had yielded to outside pressures or that it had lent itself to the manoeuvres of ' White ' emigres in France and Germany . As the Pasternak affair had already demonstrated , the ...
... True , when Tolstoy died without returning to the Church , the Holy Synod forbade the local priest to say a mass for his soul — and instructed the local police to exact obedience from the population to its decree forbidding the chanting ...
... true works of art ; having served their own time , they retain their irresistibility and their power of conviction even when that time moves into the past . And not only as a document , but also as a passionate human response to what is ...
... true that they did not face the risk of death sentence for their literary activities , as did Socrates for his activities as a philospher : but in other respects their ordeal was more servere . Socrates had a genuine chance of ...
... true ' — my words were simply ignored as though I had never said them . . . This refusal to listen to what we were saying , this deafness to all our explanations , was characteristic of the whole of this trial . " But it is in the ...
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E H Carr Overtaken by History | 94 |
Chomsky Revisited | 112 |
Alexander Werth | 126 |
Kolakowski On Marxism and Beyond | 135 |
Will George Orwell Survive 1984? | 155 |
Raymond Arons Vindication | 217 |
The Two Minds of George Kennan | 223 |
Holocaust Myths Horrors | 240 |
The Student Revolt of the 1960s | 264 |
Détente An Evaluation | 291 |
The Question of European Unity | 319 |
On Literature Revolution | 332 |
Appreciating Milosz | 205 |